Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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Patrick Radden Keefe

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560 Seiten
20 Lesestunden

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Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the Jean McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. From radical and impetuous IRA terrorists such as Dolours Price, who was planting bombs and targeting informers when she was barely out of her teens, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his IRA past